A Judge has ruled that the ballot will stand as is for the Virginia primary with Ron Paul and Mitt Romney as the only candidates in the presidential primary.

In a 22 page ruling the Judge basically said that the Plaintiffs: Perry,Gingrich,Santorum,Huntsman waited too long to file their request for an injunction.

The Judge said: In essense, they played the game, lost, and then complained that the rules were unfair, Judge Gibney pulled no punches here: They knew the rules in Virginia many months ago; the limitations on circulators affected them as soon as they began to circulate petitions. The plaintiffs could have challenged the Virginia law at that time. Instead, they waited until after the time to gather petitions had ended and they had lost the political battle to be on the ballot; then on the eve of the printing of absentee ballots, they decided to challenge Virginias laws .The traditional purpose of a preliminary injunction is to prohibit an action. Preliminary injunctions are meant to protect the status quo In this case, the plaintiffs request that the Court require the Board to add their names to the primary ballot, which is a positive act that alters the status quo.

In essence the judged looked at the LAW, and ruled on the LAW, and didnt practice activism. Fantastic. If people do not like the ruling they need to change the LAW in Virginia!

The fact that you filed a lawsuit says your STUPID. You couldn’t pull your self from the teat of your handlers long enough to say “hey we better register with Virginia this week”. It is proof that you don’t deserve the nomination. Thanks but no thanks.

Now turn your incompetence toward the No Romney campaign.

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posted on 01/14/2012 4:54:13 PM PST
by pennyfarmer
(Even a RINO will chew its foot off when caught in a trap.)

"the limitations on circulators affected them as soon as they began to circulate petitions. The plaintiffs could have challenged the Virginia law at that time"...

The so-called "circulators" getting the qualifying petitions for candidates to be on the ballot apparently have to be from Virginia, and not from out-of-state (I read this elsewhere), but the point is...

How could a theoretically main-stream candidate mess this up?! SHEESH!! So the Virginia primary will basically be a waste of time, although not convention delegates, in actually choosing a nominee to run against Obama, and that's very unfortunate, IMHO! What's the point of a Romney/Paul contest??

This whole thing stinks. While my candidate’s ox doesn’t get gored by it, it still stinks to high heaven. Remember that the decision by the VA GOP to review the petitions was made very soon before the time ended to submit the petitions.

I was going to vote for Ron Paul anyway, but this just makes me all that more determined to help him win in VA.

Oh, and I’ve decided to join the VA GOP as well. For the very first time I finally have some good reasons for wanting to be a Republican. Lord help me, it’ll tough to bite back the bile.

This whole thing stinks. While my candidate’s ox doesn’t get gored by it, it still stinks to high heaven. Remember that the decision by the VA GOP to review the petitions was made very soon before the time ended to submit the petitions.

I was going to vote for Ron Paul anyway, but this just makes me all that more determined to help him win in VA.

Oh, and I’ve decided to join the VA GOP as well. For the very first time I finally have some good reasons for wanting to be a Republican. Lord help me, it’ll tough to bite back the bile.

The scheduling of this mess is in limbo because of the court redrawing the reapportionment districts.

We check daily to be informed when they will open the primary candidate process again. They froze it when the court acted.

The Primary date is set in April 3rd, but as of 1-5-2012 “the courts have set the final day a person can file to be on the Republican (or Democrat) Primary Ballot as 6 PM on February 1st, but as of this moment, the day you can begin to file for a spot on the ballot is STILL TO BE DETERMINED BY COURT ORDER.” (still no date as of 1-14-2010)

What a mess.

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posted on 01/14/2012 7:34:17 PM PST
by Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)

The writer and the Fascist pig of a judge MISSED A POINT ~ Mitt Romney's signatures weren't checked at all.

We don't know if he met the standards the judge thinks exists.

On the other hand we do know that Mullins and Bolling are bedside bunnies with Mitt and the Mittbots, and apparently so is the Governor, and probably others.

Their running dog lackeys changed the rules regarding what signatures needed checked AFTER Mitt got 15,000. Everybody knows that if he'd had 10000 the rule would have been 10000.

Sorry, Cheaters Never Win and these pukes are OUTTA VIRGINIA POLITICS FOR LIFE.

Not a one of them can run for office again without serious harassment, and that ever present public question ~ properly lodged, about "Well, Governor, how do we know there's any integrity in your campaign ~ you cheated for Mitt and deprived Virginia voters of any choices in the primary".

And it won't be just Republicans raising the issue ~ there are these critters called Democrats and I am very certain THEY will use the issue.

The rules in Virginia are anti-democratic to the degree that it can be said the nominating petitions are approaching the point where they can be considered a substitute for primaries or caucuses.

If the goobers screwing up the Republican party operation in Virginia want to do that TELL US and we'll DO WHAT IS NECESSARY to make sure the goober's and their wet hair candidates don't get onto the ballot as Republicans.

Arthur H. Bremer has been loose ~ they watch for him in Maryland so I wouldn’t expect any problem there, but the Virginia elite have certainly attracted the attention of folks like ol’ Art there and the other 400,000 madmen on the Secret Service list.

Even though they both may have had the required number of voters on the Virginia GOP required petitions, they missed by having some of their workers NOT being registered Virginia voters, a requirement that seems to have been changed less than 30 days before the deadline to submit petitions.

Both Romney and RonPaul have more or less continued running since 2008 and they had the ground team ready and running.

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